TNA Impact Thread

[Izzy]

I will watch iMPACT on youtube. I intentionally stopped watching iMPACT on TV for the past two weeks. I did not want to give TNA any ratings.

you understand of course what Neilson is? How ratings work?

Anyway, thought Impact was very impressive. We get a lot of wrestling these days, no more 2 min matches.

I'm still mourning the x division, I need to move on and just accept it's gone

speaking of gone - wheres our global champ?

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I think Terry is injured. 

They still are fighting for the belt. Ultimate Xon the next PPV.

I honestly can't point to anything right now on Impact and say I don't like it.

[Yankee1012]

I watched iMPACT yesterday, and it was alright.

I just hate how TNA crams as much as they can into every show.

Angle vs Wolfe was decent. I thought it could have been better. The Tag Match was alright for a tag match.

Isn't it funny how Abyss seems to act more and more like Kane by the year? Also, How is it that Abyss and Kane are both having significant storylines right now? Thought that was a funny coincidence. I have always thought of Abyss as a rip off of Kane + Mankind.

The Lethal/Flair stuff is just bad to me. Morgan/Hernandez is nothing great to me.

The Williams/Kendrick stuff is alright. At least Kendrick is being used in a wrestling company, and he is not screwing it up. I am becoming a fan Douglas Williams more and more. He is a good wrestler and he has mic skills.

[Izzy]

Kaz v Leathal 2 years ago was what sold me on TNA. Now...their style has totally changed. It's not bad, but it's not AS good. However, the product itself has much more going for it.

Rather than cramming the show I think they fit an amazing about in their and have 90% work, that's pretty good

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Another great Impact. wish they had done it like this from the start. Maybe we'd still have a Monday Night War

Abyss Finally is a beast again, that AJ/Samoa Joe match was the best match u will see the rest of this month.

[Izzy]

Good Impact, only issue is Impact constantly seems to be heading somewhere but we never actually arrive!

Wish they'd use some common sense at times - Abyss is causing chaos and no security? Sarita kills Taylor Wilde and the cameraman just watches? In any of these sequences let's get the camera lot involved, let's have security immedietly show up, if someone's gone nuts have them immedietly removed.

If u want the scene to run just have our heel beat the security guys up. Easy. Just grow a bit tired of the 'oh look, who's being murdered this week backstage' bits where management does nothing about it...

Ohh, are we going to get any details on who was leaving cards? OJ finished already?

Fire Russo!

[Yankee1012]

Another great Impact. wish they had done it like this from the start. Maybe we'd still have a Monday Night War

Abyss Finally is a beast again, that AJ/Samoa Joe match was the best match u will see the rest of this month.

If TNA was more original then I could call that a great iMPACT. TNA has so many problems still it is not funny.

ECW Invasion? Really? This has been done 3 times before and you will NOT attract much viewers from WWE.  Honestly this storyline sucks so far mainly because it has been done too many times, and they are not grasping my interest in the storyline.

What is up with a brawl on every iMPACT? It is usually done because they have no idea what to do with the storyline that week.

Morgan is good and I like what he is doing with Hernandez, but the match will be worse than the build up by far.

Neal/Brother Ray...Just bad...Not interested in it especially when there are BRAWLS for random reasons backstage!

Williams/Kendrick is interesting. That stuff is fine, and TNA is not doing anything over the top with this which is good.

I hate to say this, but TNA just is a hit or miss on booking. Sometimes they can book something great, and then sometimes they book it and I am just like WTF did I see? TNA reminds me of WCW's bad days more and more these days.


Overall iMPACT was ok, but they need to have a GOOD PPV in a few weeks. TNA needs to build off of something positive in their company.

[Izzy]

Impact this week really was very very good.

Intelligent booking, good matches and very focused. So many good angles running right now

I still feel there is another gear TNA can and must shift into - but if it's this good at 80% the future does look bright.

Apparently Tommy Dreamer is now on creative, whatever the truth this year had been a good year for TNA writing

[D]

Yeah its a damn shame they couldn't start out like it is now
the matches are incredible. Kaz vs AJ was outstanding the 6 man with MCMG/morgan vs Hernandez/BM was awesome... RVD and Samoa Joe was phenomenal with an amazing finish. Main event with Hardy and Anderson excellent as well. Even the ladder match with Doug williams and the one kid was good.

Too bad, people seem to have moved on and are not giving it a chance now.

[Izzy]

Abyss eating raw beef?

Ya know I've done that too - to be fair, not with the same gusto, or in a ring. In a resturant, raw beef is some sort of recognised dish.

Truth be told, it was cold (no, really) and there was plenty of blood. I'm not keen to repeat it really

anyway, I liked that bit. Certainly left thinking 'abyss is nuts'

wish I knew what on earth they are doing with this ECW angle - we have ECW guys against each other for some reason and why is Abyss now on the wrong side despite being built as a heel?

It all makes my head hurt

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it was still an awesome ending even if i didnt make much sense.

Also that Beer Money/MCMG stuff is class all the way

love the Beautiful people stuff as well. set through two terrible Diva matches last night at MITB.. refreshing how much more awesome TNA's knockouts are.

Velvet Sky is the hottest chick in wrestling. DAMN! that dress she had on.

[Yankee1012]

As it stands right now I am not interested in the ECW storyline. I hope Dixie gives a good reason for "inviting" them to the iMPACT zone.

[Izzy]

Doesn't make much sense for some ECW guys to be on one side and the rest on the other. I'd have liked to see them all in on it - especially Tazz who could be revealed as the leader

I imagine they had that planned then realised (true frontline v MEM style) that with all the dame type of guys on one side how where they going to do **** matches. While the angle works better if they are aligned the matched will be better with **** talent bs **** talent

[Izzy]

Thought this weeks Impact was very average

Looks like they did a 180 with the ECW invasion and basically left a match - wasn't RVD a heel as recently as one week ago?

Angle's climb up the top 10 makes little sense where the top 10 keeps changing each week, surely if this was 'real' he could end up battling the same guy again and again?!

Nice to see they are trying to reboot the Glibal title again - but they have messed that belt around so much...

Did anyone understand the Nash/Jarrett promo? I have no idea what they were talking about? What is their feud?

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Yeah but MCMG vs Beer Money is some classic stuff


and loved the time limit draw with Samoa Joe and Hardy. I miss those.. leaves u wanting more when they do the time limit draws.


I didn't take RVD as being a heel.. he was helping out old friends.. i didn't think anyone was booked as a heel or face.. just kinda what it was.


Nash and Jarrett I think has something to do with Jarrett selling out the company or what not and holding down young guys and trying to relive his glory years or something. not quite sure yet.